In a capitalist country, workers are heavily repressed but manage to get a "death ray" to fight back. (A part of the movie is lost.)
Civil war died down. The soldiers returned home from the front.
A strong friendship links the three comrades, former Red commanders Langovoy, Zheltikov and senior among them, Uncle Sasha.
All three friends work in the military headquarters. Uncle Sasha and Zheltikov are bachelors. They dwelt together in one room. Friends often come to visit a cozy apartment of Langovoy and his ...
An example of ironic Soviet propagandistic film from the silent era, this film chronicles the adventures of an American, "Mr. West," and his faithful bodyguard and servant Jeddie, as they visit the land of the horrible, evil Bolsheviks. Through various mishaps, Mr. West discovers that the Soviets are actually quite remarkable people, and, by the end of the film, his opinion of ...
Primarily a biographical documentary about the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, who was Field Marshal of the armies of Catherine the Great and Czar Paul I. After many military successes during the reign of Catherine, General Suvorov broke with her successor, Paul I, the Mad Emperor, over questions regarding army policy. He went into retirement and wrote "The Scie...
Taiwanese School: The Experiment of Sergei Eisenstein's Montage Theory is a film featuring Sergei M. Eisenstein 's montage art and revolutionary spirit, 'unification of society' as its theme. It also makes a social comment on bullying issues among contemporary society. Sergei M. Eisenstein 's montage artistic concept is presented in this short film.
A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old village friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed peasant is also arrested and sent to fight in World War I. After three years, he returns ready for revolution.
1918年,在俄国革命影响下的蒙古。蒙古牧民贝尔带着珍贵的貂皮前往被英国干涉军队和白俄占据的要塞市场出售。商人强行低价收购他的貂皮。他不堪屈辱,愤而与商人发生冲突,最后逃往大漠。他加入游击队抗击白俄军队,不幸被捕。就在执行枪决时,他被发现是成吉思汗的后裔,被解救并被扶植成傀儡。白俄和英国干涉军想借他之手更好地统治蒙古。具有强烈民族自尊感的贝尔却毅然走上了反抗异族奴役与压迫的道路。他以成吉思汗子孙的名义,率领蒙古的各游牧民族,以风扫残云之势,驱逐了异族侵略者。
本片是前苏联著名电影导演普多夫金在西方世界博得最高赞誉的一部杰作。与爱森斯坦相反,普多夫金以一个主人公为中心来展开描写,生动地刻画了贝尔这位思想觉悟的蒙古牧民形象。影片具有浓厚的人种学色彩,逼真地再现了蒙古游牧民族的生活和喇嘛寺院举行佛事的盛大景况。全片有完整的叙事结构,是一部雄伟的巨著。它以貂...
根据托尔斯泰的同名戏剧作品改编成的电影,由普多夫金主演,是前苏联默片时代晚期的一部杰作。
The Living Corpse (Zhivoy trup)
(Country: Germany, Soviet Union; Director: Fyodor Otsep; Writer: Boris Gusman, Anatoli Marienhof, Fyodor Otsep, Leo Tolstoy; Cast: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Maria Jacobini, Viola Garden, Julia Serda, Nato Vachnadze, Gustav Diessl, Vera Maretskaya, Dmitri Vvedensky, Vladimir Uralsky, Boris Barnet)
Late-silent ...